a personal introduction to Japanese photography
Ken Kitano, from Flow and Fusion -- Tokyo Dome Profile by Yu Hidaka for Japan Exposures. Please also see our extended gallery of Kitano’s work. Note: click on images to see large The photographs of Ken Kitano are both extremely concrete and highly philosophical at the same time. Kitano, whom the critic and curator Vince Aletti picked as one of...
The medium of photography was invented out of our strong desire to create a likeness of our reality — and ourselves in it. We then learned that the camera would see what our eyes never could — time being brought to a standstill. However, in actuality during the early days of the medium the relationship of photography and time was quite the...
Ken Kitano was born in Tokyo in 1968, and graduated from Nihon University’s College of Industrial Technology in 1991. Since 1993 he has been a freelance photographer. Kitano came to prominence with the release in 2005 of his “Our Face” series of group portraits made by combining many individual portraits into a single work, and won...
Daido Moriyama, wedding photographer
Mr. Moriyama and were guests at the wedding of a mutual friend in June- the groom, an editor at Nippon Camera, is a fine photographer in his own right with an excellent photobook that was published by Seigensha back in 2007.
I had heard recently that Moriyama quit shooting Ricoh cameras, and sure enough he had a small, basic little Nikon digital compact on him throughout the evening. Since most of the guests and both of the newlyweds were all photographers it was quite nice when the groom introduced this photographic legend to the room, and asked for some words of advice for photography and life. Moriyama delivered an impromptu yet classy speech which, like the shot above, was well documented visually.
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